WASHINGTON--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--FiscalNote, the Washington DC-based company that is dramatically
improving the way organizations engage with government, today
announced Chris Lu to the newly created post of senior strategy advisor.
Lu will work with co-founder and CEO Tim Hwang and the executive team on
business development beginning in February, once his current duties as
Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor conclude.

“Chris’ regulatory, legislative and political expertise bring immediate
value to both our executive team and our rapidly growing list of
customers”

“Chris’ regulatory, legislative and political expertise bring immediate
value to both our executive team and our rapidly growing list of
customers,” said Tim Hwang, co-founder and CEO of
FiscalNote. “Companies, non-profits and advocacy groups face increasing
uncertainty with the change in Presidential administrations and the
competing interests of state and local governments. There are few people
who understand better how to navigate this challenging political terrain
than Chris Lu.”

During his public service career, Lu has served in all three branches of
the Federal Government and continuously worked to deepen the
understanding of the political process. In the Executive branch, he was
White House Cabinet Secretary/Assistant to the President and Co-Chair of
the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
During his time in the Legislative branch, he was Legislative Director
and Acting Chief of Staff for then-Senator Barack Obama and Deputy Chief
Counsel of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee under
Rep. Henry Waxman. And in the Judicial branch, he was a law clerk for
Judge Robert E. Cowen on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third
Circuit. He also led the Obama-Biden Transition Project beginning the
day after the 2008 Presidential election.

Lu is the co-editor of Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Congress
(Praeger, 2014). Beginning in February, he will also be a senior fellow
at the University of Virginia Miller Center.

Lu graduated magna cum laude from Princeton and cum laude
from Harvard Law School. He is the recipient of numerous awards
including an honorary doctorate from MacMurray College. In his spare
time, Lu is an avid runner and has completed more than 30 marathons.

About FiscalNote

FiscalNote has
reinvented influence – dramatically improving the way organizations
build and manage their relationships with all levels of government, and
empowering them to have maximum impact on legislation and regulation.
Using proprietary analytics and breakthrough machine-learning
techniques, the company’s government
relationship management platform (FiscalNote GRM) is now the most
effective tool for influencing Federal, state and local governments. The
platform delivers contextual insights via elegant workflow and outreach
tools that support an enterprise-based approach to modern government
affairs – and the entire system learns over time. The platform
automatically tracks and analyzes data on more than 1.5 million active
bills, more than 700,000 regulations, more than 19,000 legislators and
their staffers, more than seven million comments, more than 6,000
watchlists, and more than 125,000 individual entities. Data is
automatically collected from more than 150 sources at least four times
every day.

The company has raised more than $30 million from prominent early-stage
investors including Renren, First Round Capital, Green Visor Capital,
NEA, Visionnaire Ventures, Steve Case, Mark Cuban and Jerry Yang/AME
Cloud Ventures. More than 180 organizations use the company’s
proprietary tools and services. The growing number of enterprise
companies – from startups through global multinationals – depending on
FiscalNote include Aetna, Akin Gump, Amazon, AstraZeneca, AT&T, Blue
Cross Blue Shield, BristolMyers Squibb, Dish Network, Expedia, Fidelity,
HealthSouth, Microsoft, SallieMae, Salesforce, Schlumberger, Southwest
Airlines, Staples, Tate Incorporated, Uber and Walgreens. Non-profits
and advocacy groups relying on FiscalNote include the Boys & Girls Clubs
of America, Code.org, the Information Technology Industry Council, the
National Restaurant Association, the Natural Resources Defense Council,
the Republican and Democratic Governors Associations, and the University
of Virginia’s Law School. FiscalNote is a 2016 World Economic Forum
Technology Pioneer and co-founder Tim Hwang is a WEF New Champion.